Guide card for vertical filing systems



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n INVENv-TOR @if fvldzloRNEx/i Patentedy Feb. 8, 1927.

UNITED 'ser 'reir THEODOEE J. AMBERG, E CHICAGO, ILLrNors, AssrGNoE 'roAMBER@ Eiiiii` AND l INDEX COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

GUIDE CARD Eon VERTICAL FILING sYs'rEMs.

Application ledjApril 20, 1923. Serial No. 633,339.

The invention relates to improvements in guide cards and moreparticularly to guide Cards for use in vertical filing systems. It hasbeen common to provide guide cards with tabs extending from one edge Yofthe Card on which tab is displayed the indicating or guide subjectmatter, but by reason of Continual handling, such tabs frequently becomebent or broken. It has also been suggested to provide 'sheet metal tabs,but these for one reason or anothervhave not proved satisfactory..According to my invention I provide guide cards with a suitable tab andthen reinforce the same withl a plate vpreferably of sheet metal, whichplate Vnot only thoroughly reinforces the tab and holds it rigid withrespect to the card, butalso sat-- isfactorily. holds a removableindicating slip.

Further and more specific objects, features and advantages will moreclearly appear from the detail description given below taken inConnection with the accompanying sheet of drawings which form a partV ofthis speci fication.V In the drawings Fig. 1 isafaCe View of a guide orindex card embodying my invention in the preferred form thereof.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isan enlarged section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. n

Referring to the drawings 4 represents the body portion of a suitableguide card preferably made of heavy strong cardboard or liber board and5 represents Van integral guide or index tab projecting from the upperedge thereof.A The cardlmayfalso beprovided with va tab 6 on its loweredge provided with an eyelet 7 ythrough.which a suitable rod may bepassed to hold orlock the same in the usual vertical filing cabinet.

8 represents a reinforcing plate preferably made of sheet `metalextending from the body portion 4 of the Card'and over the tab 5, theupper edge of the plate being bent over the outer edge of the tab as at9Vto provide -a depending flange 10 which is firmly pressed to thefupperedge of the tab so as to grip the upper edge ofthe tab and firmly 'Asecure the upper edge of `theplate 8 to the upper edge ofthe tab. y Theplate i8 is also rigidly secured tothe body portion of the Card directlyopposite and below the tab 5 by riveting the saine thereto as by meansof eyelets A11. Opposite the tab 5 the plate 8V is bent or stampedoutwardly as more clearly shown in Fig. 2 at 12, so as to form a partwhich is'sp'aced f-rom tab 5 and this part is provided with a window 13so that aslot is formed between the stamped-out part and the card fordisplaying'an indicating or guide slip 14 behind the plate. A strip ofCelluloid 15 may also 'be' placed in the' slot behind window l13 andinfront of the indicating slip 14 in order to keep the latter clean. Inorder to prevent the removable transparent strip of Celluloid 15 and theremovable indicating slip 14' from' slipping out of the space or slotbehind thewindow,A `13,1*p1ovide the plate 8 with projectionsl'16,'which projections are adjacent the edges ofthe window and near theends of the tab and extend toward said tab or card.` These pro-`jections are preferably stamped from the plate. as shown in detail inlFig. 8 and, as shown in Fig. 1J are narrower than the width ofthe slot,eqg. they extendj substantially across the slot'only at the middle ofthe ends thereof, whereby by pressing the Card away therefrom the indexslip may bereasily inserted past the projections, and yet theprojections satisfactorily prevent the index slip 14 andcelluloid slip15 from slipping out at either end of the pocket formed by thestamped-out'part 12 of the reinforcing plate. However the projectionshave'their outer faces inclined at an angle to the face of the card andextending inwardly toward the card and laterallyV toward the window]V asshown in Fig. 3, this, with thelresiliency of the card, permitting theindicating slip and Celluloid strip to be readily'inserted in the slotpast either of the projections but normally preventing the indicatingslip' and Celluloid strip from slipping out past theV projectionsalthoughv by pressing the card back away from either of the projectionsthe 'Celluloid strip' and Aindicating slip mayy be slipped out pastvtheprojection.

By theY arrangement shown the'reinforcing plate is -not o nlyY rigidlysecured `to the outer edge of the tab by `being bent over and grippingthe same', but is also rigidly secured to the bodyportion ofthe Cardopposite the tab and so does not depend vfor cating slip in said slotbetween vthe stampedout part and the card, said vstamped-out part havinga window for displaying the indicating slip and said stamped-out parthaving a projection at the end of the slot, which projection is narrowerthan the width of the slotV but extends substantially across the slotbetween the stamped-out part and the card to normally prevent theindicating slip from slipping out past the projection but permitting theindicating slip to be inserted in the slot past the projection. Y

6. A guide card for vertical ling systems, having an integral tabprojecting from ,its top edge and a sheet metal reinforcing plateextending over said tab from the body portion of the card, said platebeing bent over and gripping the outer edge of the tab and being securedto the body portion of the card below the tab, said reinforcing platehaving a stamped-out part spaced from the card and forming a slotbetween the stampedout part and the card, a removable indicating slip insaid slot between the stampedout part and the card, said stamped-out'part having a window for displaying the indicating slip, said windowextending below the top edge of the body portion of the card so as toextend over part of the body portion of the card, and said stamped-outpart having projections at each end of the slot7 which projectionsextend substantially across the slot between the stamped-out part andthe card, the resiliency of 4the card permitting an indicating slip tobe inserted into the slot past either of the projections, while theprojections normally prevent the indicating slip from slipping out pastthe projections.

7. A guide card for vertical filing systems,

having an integral tab projecting from its top edge and a sheet metalreinforcing plate extending over said tab from the body portion ot thecard, said plate being bent over having a window for displaying'theindicating slip, said stamped-out part having means at each end of theslot or normally preventing the vindicating slip from slipping laterallyfrom the slot, one of Vsaid means f comprising ak projection at one endof the slot, said projection being narrower than the width of the slotbutextending substantially across they slot, and being adapted'to permitthe indicating slip to be inserted into the slot between the stamped-outpart and the card and ypast said projection, and also permitting theindicating slip to be slipped out of the slot past said projection uponf pressing the card awaytherefrom.

8. A guide card for lvertical hling systems.

having an integral tab projectingfrom oneV of its edges and areinforcing plate extending over said tab and secured with respectthereto, said reinforcing plate having a stamped-out part spaced fromthe card forming a slot between the stamped-out part and the card toaccommodate a removable indicating slip, said stamped-out part hav- Ying a window for displaying the indicating `slip and said stamped-outpart having means at each end of the slot for normally preventing theindicating slip from slipping laterally Afrom the slot at least one ofsaid

